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Monday, August 24, 1925

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The Headlines

REPUBLICANS OPEN CAMPAIGN TONIGHT; NOTIFY WATERMAN; Nicholas Murray Butler to Deliver Speech and Candidates Will Reply. RIVALS ATTACK NOMINEE Bennett and Lyons Issue Statements Declaring Waterman Is Not a Republican. VOTING RECORD CITED AGAIN A Millionaire Candidate Picked by Six, Four of Them Millionaires, Says Lyons.

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Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush

Flapper

bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy

Gangster

big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy

Catchphrases of 1925

  • The business of America is business

Tech Check

Mechanical Television, The Leica I & Masking Tape.

Cost of Living (1920)

Loaf of Bread

$0.11

Gallon of Gas

$0.30

Average Home

$6,296

New Car

$575

Time Elapsed

36,810 days ago

(100 years, 310 days)